Tuesday, 21 July 2015

The streams such as illustrated in
Stackpole Churchyard have a fauna and flora which depends on clear
water ,gravel and rock beds.

The illustrated “solutions” are the
worst possible,runoff is legally the responsibility of the contractor
or farmer.

Agricultural run off is the
responsibility and the self interest of the cultivators of the
eroding land and must not be displaced to the shared water courses.

There is Legislation in place which
controls agricultural run off.

There is legislation to enforce
compliance, and specific rules about cultivation, cattle access to
water courses, and prevention of surface run off.

Enforce
the above.

Ponds

Before any actiona

Research methods and practice employed
by the original canal and drainage engineers of the Seventeen
Hundreds .

Part of the catchment area is red
sandstone draining to fractured limestone dry valleys.

The fractured limestone aquifer has
many outflows at sea level the aquifer can rise and fall seasonally
by many feet

The engineers turned a seasonal water
flow to the ponds into an impounded system.

Before the valley was damned all the
seepage points and springs were identified and puddled with blue clay
to seal in a basic level body of water this set a minimum level.

Several were destroyed by recent
dredging by NT which should have been stopped at the first sign of
the puddled blue clay.

The water to maintain the rare plants
and animals has to be managed and cropped regularly to to stop
eutrophication The cut vegetation
must be removed. .

This ceased in the late fifties, and
now is only spasmodic it needs to be planned intense and regular.

The pond above the one arch bridge is
now woodland and has always had to be regularly cleared that is no
longer feasible and should be allowed to become woodland.

The pond to the Hidden Bridge is open
water.

The stretch below was cleared several
years ago but dredging clearance and tree felling was overseen by
casuals and is an example of how not to do it to introduce people to
the ponds, they were cleared to the waters edge leaving intruders in
full view no longer a refuge for wildfowl,

A thin margin of vegetation allows wild
life to be observed but not driven away.

See Main Pond at the Grassy
Bridge,footpath at the waters edge

Main Pond management abandoned

Fallen trees should be left in the pond
to shelter fish fry vulnerable in the clear open water

Freshwater Mussels must be conserved.

Visitors only see the semi domesticated
species all the migratory water birds no longer use the ponds .

The
water quality is the problem.

Occasional sea water
improves the fauna and flora.

A
base line survey must be made of the rare species in the ponds which
are management sensitive to evaluate management.

We
have no confidence in the oversight by the designated so called
partners with only little superficial scientific knowledge

Saturday, 18 July 2015

National Trust Freshwater West 18072015
Display was Economical with the Truth

No mention that the now partially
demolished and degraded Grade Two Listed Bridge Chamber and Culvert
which won the Royal Society Gold Medal for Agriculture in 1800 and
maintained the unique balance between wildlife and agriculture for
200 years ,partially demolished by the National Trust to earn £3.5
million for filming on the beach who then promised to rebuild it, and
are now refusing to do so

National Trust said that as it had been
built after 1948 it was ineligible for preservation. The three
alternatives now proposed by them are in cynical denial of all the
facts.

The National Trust have removed most of
the traces of the “temporary structure” from the beach but the
remaining massive limestone blocks are certainly not temporary the
white granite blocks have been sold those alone could partially cover
the cost of rebuild.

The Chamber is being damaged repeatedly
by the National Trust and soon will fail

The agriculture and SSSI depend on
occasional salt water to maintain the alkalinity of a Calcareous
Water Meadow.

We managed the only other Calcareous
Water Meadow in Wales for twenty years.

The National Trust accuse us of being
senile with false memories, my degree in Botany and Zoology and
membership of the West Wales field Society in 1947 count for nothing
to their employees who cannot even be bothered to consult all the
local records, and who hold locals in contempt.

The Culvert must be rebuilt the Chamber
damaged by the National Trust must be repaired.

The first solar farms blended into the countryside, after a series of thefts of solar panels the new installations have security fences with lights and cameras surrounded by a gravel strip reminiscent of a high security military base.

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